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Game preservation rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You wouldn't pirate a game you already paid for to be able to play it again since the company stopped supporting it and no longer sells it

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

How come copyright owners are not legally required to distribute their work?

Copyright is supposedly a deal society strikes with creatives: They create art for society and in return the law ensures that they profit off of their original works. If they no longer uphold their end of the bargain how come the rest of us should still uphold their copyright? If they no longer make their works available their copyright should be forfeit automatically.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Good observation, never thought of it. It's like some people already said: if libraries came after copyright they would say it's communism and publishers would sue everyone